by Kathy Collard Miller | Jun 1, 2016 | communication, marriage, relationships
Do you know what men hate? Overlapping. You may ask, “What is overlapping?” It’s how women talk! Think of a group of women talking. What do we do? Women can interrupt another woman’s conversation but we think of it as acceptable...
by Kathy Collard Miller | May 26, 2016 | contentment, grace, marriage, motives, people pleasing, perfectionism, unconditional love
In my last post, I noted some of the differences between men and women (generally speaking) is that women love the process. One of the ways she may “process” is through “dreaming of possibilities.” Here’s an example of a conversation that...
by Kathy Collard Miller | May 21, 2016 | assumptions, family, first love, marriage, relationships, unconditional love
In my last posts, I’ve talked about our early marriage and our first vacation. I didn’t realize how much I didn’t know about a man. One of my faulty assumptions was that Larry thought like me and I could interpret his behavior based upon how I would...
by Kathy Collard Miller | May 17, 2016 | assumptions, contentment, marriage, position in Christ, risk, unconditional love
In my last post, I described Larry and my first vacation. I had high expectations of lots of attention. Larry had high expectations of driving in complete silence. I was crushed and he had no clue of my thoughts. Looking back, I wish I wouldn’t have assumed...
by Kathy Collard Miller | May 14, 2016 | anger, assumptions, marriage, relationships, trials, unconditional love
Why isn’t Larry talking to me? It’s 1970 and we’d only been married a few months. We were finally going on our first vacation since our honeymoon and I was thrilled! I couldn’t wait to be with my beloved for three whole days. I was especially...
by Kathy Collard Miller | May 11, 2016 | anger, contempt, marriage, prayer for others, truth, unconditional love
When Larry and I had been married for seven years, we were completely disillusioned with each other. I couldn’t understand why Larry didn’t love me anymore. He certainly was far from being the Prince Charming I’d married. Oh Lord, what’s wrong with him? I moaned. I...